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A review by beneatthetrees
Second Impact by David Klass
2.0
I have a peculiar inability to enjoy a book when it doesn't sell me on its main characters. This was one of those times. The main premise of this story is that it's told from two SCHOOL bloggers' points of view, an aspiring journalist and a quarterback who has recently fallen from glory in a drunk driving incident- which could have been an amazing opportunity for character development and/or developing INTEREST in this character, but it was only mentioned two or three times with little gravity and no later effects besides the girl who got her face smashed in IGNORING him at a party! *gasps* Anyway, these two bloggers write with incredibly specific detail every fragment of an occasion as if it were currently happening and while I believe teenagers can write very well, I don't believe they would put so many trivial details into a blog for their school. What kind of blog is it anyway? Sports? Everyday life? It's just A Blog that I honestly feel would NOT interest fellow students! Teenagers don't care enough to read pages about how someone's visit to a friends house went!!! ESPECIALLY if it were part of their schools blog! Maybe that's just me personally, but I feel that a school blog would be written off unless someone was living an exceptional life, these two were not, at least not until the end, but those were deleted.
This book felt like it was going nowhere through the entire story. There was no central conflict, was it concussions? Is this a call to action? Is this just justifying football? It felt like one writer (as it's cowritten) hated football and the other felt very passionately about its importance, this led to a very dizzying and confusing story, there was no unity in opinions or direction for the story! I feel like they just decided "hey I'll start a book and you jump in for the next chapter!" "Okay! What are we covering?" "Football and stuff now roll with it!"
I disliked this book, however, it is two stars because it WAS well written if you could ignore the improbability of blog posts being so specific and the irritating quality and lack of depth in the lead characters. Unless you rabidly love football or are at least not a football importance skeptic I don't recommend it.
This book felt like it was going nowhere through the entire story. There was no central conflict, was it concussions? Is this a call to action? Is this just justifying football? It felt like one writer (as it's cowritten) hated football and the other felt very passionately about its importance, this led to a very dizzying and confusing story, there was no unity in opinions or direction for the story! I feel like they just decided "hey I'll start a book and you jump in for the next chapter!" "Okay! What are we covering?" "Football and stuff now roll with it!"
I disliked this book, however, it is two stars because it WAS well written if you could ignore the improbability of blog posts being so specific and the irritating quality and lack of depth in the lead characters. Unless you rabidly love football or are at least not a football importance skeptic I don't recommend it.